Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

My friend also mentioned a bit of veteran professional advice for the young ops team member some of you may need: The moment a lawyer who does not and cannot contribute anything starts - somehow, mysteriously - joining your incident calls, they're there specifically and only so that conversation is sheltered from regulatory scrutiny by attorney-client privilege. And that means shit is way, way worse you realize and you need to start thinking about protecting yourself.

https://mastodon.social/@oration/117533008158449710

I’d like to thank Binance for teaching a load of crypto bros why banking regulations that make it possible to reverse fraudulent transactions exist.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes/117532673455166059

people in the Dark Tetrad ―narcissists, machiavellians, sadists, and especially sociopaths― are really, reall good at empathic mimicry.

if you’re a GenXer who worked in anything related to management, back in the late 1990s well into the early 2010s, you must remember articles and books about “organizational sociopaths”, Snakes in Suits, The Sociopath Next Door and The Good Sociopath.

then MAGA and Trump happened and HRs and C-suites been denying they scouted & rewarded sociopaths.

PLEASE BOOST.

Throwing this out there for reasons:

Looking for full- or part-time work.

Happy to drive a bit out of Toronto for it, or to work remotely, or do a hybrid situation.

- Award-winning short fiction writer.
- Certified copy editor.
- University English degree.
- 5+ years sourcing, editing and writing published content (housing market, car industry), including leading phone and in-person interviews
- 10+ years doing commercial graphic design (InDesign & Adobe Suite)
- 10+ years in various CSR roles
- Paid movie actor (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6359097/)
- Paid voiceover talent
- Completed paid course in using Reaper DAW for voiceover capture, editing, and exporting
- Work great alone and in teams
- A twist I’d love to explore professionally: Dabble in tabletop game design, solo and collaboratively

Please pass any leads along. Happy to send you my direct email.

Thanks for boosts and any suggestions!

#Toronto
#work
#job

RE: https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/117533401914036933

And this, folks, is why every #sysadmin you know is absolutely hating life right now and actively reconsidering their career choices.

<insert Kool-Aid related meme of some sort here>

Cisco gives 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code in 24 months — president plucks former startup founder, telling him to 'go nuts'

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/cisco-gives-27-year-old-engineer-unlimited-ai-tokens-to-rewrite-98-percent-of-the-companys-legacy-code-in-24-months-president-plucks-former-startup-founder-telling-him-to-go-nuts

#AI #Aipocalypse

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117535097309905304

“OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM — Sam Altman says data centers offer better utilization | Tom's Hardware”

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/openai-ceo-says-its-quite-terrible-for-your-pc-to-have-ram-sam-altman-says-data-centers-offer-better-utilization

Substitute "RAM" for "money" and you have modern capitalism in a nutshell

Flesh-eating #screwworms spread to third state and are attacking #pets - https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/flesh-eating-screwworms-are-feasting-on-pets-4-dogs-and-cat-attacked-this-week/ " USDA has identified 74 animal cases in US since parasitic flies invaded in June. " not good

Even more #ads are coming to #Google #search, Google says - https://mashable.com/tech/more-ads-are-coming-to-google-search-ai-mode I'm sure that will drive lots of traffic...

So here’s the thing. My entire life is on Proton: email, calendar, documents, VPN, all my passwords, all my ID, all my important data.

My annual subscription is up at the end of January.

If they don’t oust Andy Yen by then, I’m out. The question is where?

Infomaniak seems to offer most of what Proton does but they also use AI.

What other options are there? I’m seeing people suggesting email alternatives. But I need a whole lot more than that.

#AskFedi #cybersecurity

I love it when Europeans tell me how at least there's no ICE here, while the train app alerts me that there will be armed men on the train racially profiling passengers

@Tutanota "The goal of Tuta is to bring privacy to everyone and for that the Tuta apps must become much more feature-rich and competitive with Big Tech equivalents (eg Gmail)."

Like, what? The one thing I might miss, is a "drive" like thingie.

We do not flee big tech alternatives because we want what they offer us. We flee, because the reason we originally picked them, vanished long time ago, but by that time we were so tied to their services, it was just too much work to leave.

Eventually, they became so greedy and evil, we said "f*** it, we'll deal with the pain, we leave"

You don't compete with them by becoming them. You compete by not being like them.

@Tutanota We developers have a tool for automating repetitive processes. It is called "writing code".

If a developers workflow seems repetitive, it is generally because it involves slight variations that we need to consider every time.

If your developers struggle with repetitive tasks that do not have such variations, and can not easily be automated, you might be in a situation where you feel AI could be helpful.

The correct solution isn't AI, what you need to do is find a better tool.

Speaking as a senior software dev with decades of experience, there is no way AI could make me work faster, without compromising quality.

Me and my partner both have active Tuta subscriptions. We'll keep them for now, because the alternatives are not plentiful, and AI-embrace elsewhere is far past what you describe here.

But please, read the room

Think of why people fled to your services..

You stand to gain very little, if anything.

You risk loosing everything.

@jab01701mid @pyratebeard

who knew that in order to exploit the vast market segment of people who despise AI, you had to actually not use AI? and who knew people would be very angry if you lied about your organization being against AI? who knew telling those people to fuck off would cause them to cancel their donations and tell all their friends to not use your shit?

<circus music increases>

Nobody who says they would support a cause if only the protests were done the 'right way' will ever support that cause. They will always find a reason it's being done wrong.

In July 2024, I reported that Coinbase appeared to be violating campaign finance law by making contributions while holding federal contracts. I filed an FEC complaint alongside Public Citizen. The FEC hasn’t acted. Since, Coinbase has given $60M more and landed another federal contract.

https://www.washingtonsun.com/influence/coinbase-marshal-service-contract-political-contributions

#Coinbase #USpol #USpolitics

Imagine if a normal bank would say shit like this.

"One of our programmer's laptops got stolen, sorry but all accounts at Bank of America are now empty! Oops!"

Due to the media blackout, even I didn't know until just now that Pussy Riot, the Russian female anti-Putin protestors, have been taking part in anti-ICE demonstrations in the US since last year. They just recently protested alongside US activists at 7 different concentration camp locations.

Especially since all roads lead to #Putin, I love to see this kind of international solidarity.

#FuckICE #ICE #LosAngeles #50501movement

The Financial Times report Anthropic’s IPO is now likely to receive a Junk credit rating, according to the anchor investor in the deal.

Anthropic, Blackstone, KBRA, Morningstar DBRS and S&P declined to comment. Fitch and Moody’s did not respond to requests for comment.

https://www.ft.com/content/59383c7f-8d82-493f-bf01-d2e862a1018f?syn-25a6b1a6=1

The New Republic

@newrepublic.com
In theory, contractors are legally barred from political giving because that smacks of bribery. In practice, Musk gets a 2,200 percent return on his investment.

https://trib.al/vEVurV9